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Elizabeth Laseter chugs a beer while standing among a group of runners on a track
Dispatch from the chug zone
Published Spring 2023
"Runners set! Chug!" At the Beer Mile World Classic with JHU alum Elizabeth Laseter / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Crazy Legs Conti sits in his apartment and leans toward the camera
Crazy Legs is still hungry
Published Spring 2023 Video
Competitive eater Crazy Legs Conti has yet to max out on gross out / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A student kneels down next to a grave stone at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore
Humanities research
Overlooked history in sacred places
Published March 30, 2023
The course Researching the Africana Archive: Black Cemetery Stories brings together a community of scholars to discover, recover, and maintain Baltimore's Black cemeteries
Cupola porthole on the International space station
Space safety
Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon to co-lead new NASA institute
Published March 16, 2023
The JHU-CMU team is spearheading a Space Technology Research Institute to prevent failure in additively manufactured spaceflight materials
Martha S. Jones
History
Martha Jones appointed to U.S. historical committee
Published March 13, 2023
As a member of the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, Jones will oversee ongoing efforts to document the history of the U.S. Supreme Court
Books with numbers on them
Innovative academics
Center for Digital Humanities connects human thought and computation
Published March 7, 2023
The Center for Digital Humanities helps advance research by exploring what humans do that computers can't, and vice versa, and discovering connection points between the two
An illustration of antibodies on a shelf
Disease treatment
Check this out: A new approach to creating antibody libraries
Published March 1, 2023
The new approach to antibody libraries could expedite the antibody-creation process and accelerate the discovery of therapeutic antibody candidates and vaccines
The sun's light shows the curvature of the Earth, as seen from space
Biochemistry
Ancient proteins offer new clues about origins of life on Earth
Published Feb 27, 2023
In early Earth simulation co-led by Hopkins researchers, scientists gain insights into how amino acids shaped the genetic code of ancient microorganisms
A colorful simulation of black holes colliding
Astrophysics
Simulations show aftermath of black hole collision
Published Feb 22, 2023 Video
The work, led by Johns Hopkins researchers, shows how a remnant black hole sends gravitational waves like ripples in a pond
An illustration of a neighborhood
Community
Defending Baltimore against climate change
Published Feb 15, 2023
A new partnership between Baltimore researchers and community organizations, led by Johns Hopkins University, has received funding to advance understanding of environmental conditions at the neighborhood level and prioritize environmental justice